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"title": "COMMODORE INTRODUCES THE PET",
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"date": "1977-06-01",
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"years": [
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"1977"
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],
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"topics": [
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"Hardware"
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],
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"params": {
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"when": "JUNE 1977",
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"image": "/media/history/images/commodore_pet_system_3.jpg",
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"oc_id": 31,
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"source": {
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"url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20221215134357/http://www.old-computers.com/history/detail.asp?n=31",
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"date": "2022-12-15"
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}
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}
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}
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<img src="/media/history/images/commodore_pet_system_3.jpg"/> <br/><br/> <p>The PET 2001 (Personal Electronic Transactor) was the first computer unit ready to plug in to a mains supply and use. This concept, added to a futuristic design, caused an enormous sensation at The 1977 Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. In fact, a first PET model was presented during the January CES, but it never worked properly.<br/><br/> The PET was the first computer sold by Jack Tramiel. A legend says that, one day, Chuck Peddle, the designer of the 6502 microprocessor, accosted him in a corridor and asked him to forget hand held calculators and think about a desktop computer. Tramiel said, "Build it" and Chuck built the PET computer based on the 6502 microprocessor! <br/><br/> The PET name would be used only until the 4000 series as Philips, the owner of the registered PET name, would require Commodore to use a different name. Commodore would choose the CBM logo for the later systems. <br/><br/> Original sale price of the 4 KB PET was $495. Several hundred orders later, the price would go to $595 for the 4 KB version and $795 for the 8 KB. Several thousand orders later Jack Tramiel decided to double the price and to market the computer in Europe. The sales won't weaken.<br/><br/> Within a few months, many dealers wanted to sell the PET. But Tramiel dictated his terms: To pay cash on order and wait for the computers for about five months, to have a clean credit history and good retail and service departments.<br/><br/> While being very demanding with the dealer network, Tramiel approached the big retail chain stores, and within a few weeks, the dealers were in direct competition with the household names.<br/><br/> The PET system would become the father of a large family of PET/CBM computers including the 2000, 4000, 8000 series, then the 500, 600 and 700 series in 1983.<br/><br/> </p><img src="/media/history/images/commodore_history_2.jpg"/>
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